Stash 2.1 release notes
5th February 2013
With today's release of Stash 2.1, we've added a slew of new features to simplify your Git development workflow by providing more contextual awareness of key JIRA issue and Bamboo build information. Additional new features provide quick clicks to your recently viewed pull requests and notifications of your tasks. More contextual information, more tracking capabilities, more automation – that's Stash 2.1.
Pull request integration with JIRA
Developers create pull requests when their code is ready for peer review before merging a development branch into the main code line. To make pull requests most effective, reviewers need more context around the changes: What bug or feature is this pull request resolving? What are the details of those issues? Are any of the issues still open?
Pull requests now tightly integrate with JIRA, putting issue details front and center. View the status of an issue, along with it's assignee and description to get the scoop without ever leaving Stash. This allows reviewers to
- Gain contextual awareness into the task which is being worked on by looking at descriptions, comments and attachments
- Quickly review the requirements for a new feature or bugfix
- Click straight through into JIRA, to keep issues up to date for upcoming releases
Read more about pull requests in Stash.
Build status API
Picture this: you're about to click the 'merge' button, and then you pause to consider: did these changes pass all their tests? To answer that, it's important to know what the latest build status of the branch is before the changes are integrated into master. But don't waste time navigating to your build system and sifting through test data to see whether the changes passed or failed. Stash 2.1 does it automatically. Our new build status API allows build servers, such as Bamboo and Jenkins, to publish build details to the pull request's overview, giving you a quick idea of whether the pull request is good to merge or not.
But why stop with pull requests? The build status API will show you the build status of any commit, anywhere in Stash.
Read more about the build status API in our developer documentation.
Project Avatars
Give your projects some personality and make it easier to find them on the Dashboard with the new project avatars. Stash will randomly provide one of its colorful built-in avatars if you don't have one.
Pull request inbox
When you work across multiple repositories and projects, it can be hard to keep track of all the reviews you have to complete. We solved the problem by providing a globally accessible inbox, displaying all Pull Requests that are waiting for your approval. Use the inbox as a task list, and leave no pull request behind!
Release log
A few handpicked tickets out of a list of more than 100 features and improvements.
| New Features & Improvements | |
|---|---|
 | Pull requests show linked JIRA issue details |
| Build status API |
| Project avatars |
| Track viewed files in a pull request |
| Current branch is preserved when navigating between Files and Commits tab |
| Improved pull request title & description generation |
| Pull request inbox |
| A user can see build status information in the pull request overview |
| A user can see build status information in the commit details view |
| A user can see build status information in the commit list |
| Bundle the Scala runtime library and expose to Plugins |
| Just in time comment drift calculation (less load on your server!) |
| Add rich tooltips to disabled image diff toggles |
| Add mention 'tip' to emails |
| Added web sections for pull request metadata |
| Stash now shows file mode changes (executable bit) in changesets and pull requests |
| Add an "About" page |
| Allow use of `@` when adding reviewers to a pull request |
| Add default avatar to project create page |
| Stash plugins can listen for user cleanup events |
| Add endpoint to retrieve issue details for a pull request |
 | Improve error handling for reflog config upgrade task |
| Allow for the hook callback address and port to be specified via a property |
| Add [ as a keyboard shortcut for toggling the diff tree |
| Stash throttling: Improve experience for user pushing/pulling when number of concurrent git processes have been exceeded. |
| Stash returns HTTP 500 and /mvc/error500 on git error during hosting operations |
| Use $STASH_HOME/lib for classpath library directory |
 | Cannot view a commit that has a vertical bar character username |
| HTML returned from incorrect auth details for REST API request |
| LifecycleAware component's onStart method is not called after plugin upgrade/enablement |
| j and k keyboard shortcuts don't respect "Your unactioned pull requests" filter |
| Thread local cache in ActiveObjects causes incorrect branch permissions to be evaluated |
| service.bat does not call permgenservice.bat |
| Comment tip re:markdown should link to help docs |
| Hide "Add Users" from Stash dashboard and Group administration if internal directory is disabled |
| Project key is appended to PR link in pull request list |
| Cmd/Ctrl+Return doesn't submit comment when in preview |